Gameye

What Gameye is

Gameye is a managed container orchestration platform for multiplayer game servers, allocating servers through a REST API. It runs dedicated servers on bare-metal and cloud infrastructure across 21 providers and more than 200 datacenters. Gameye states that average container startup takes 0.5 seconds. Session controls include creation, termination, time-to-live, restart settings, environment variables, arguments, and labels.

The orchestration works at the container level, so the game server binary needs no Gameye SDK or plugin. Builds must run on Linux and be packaged as Docker images; Windows containers are not supported. Listed integrations include Unity Matchmaker, Nakama, Pragma Engine, PlayFab, AWS FlexMatch, Photon Fusion, and custom HTTP matchmakers. On-demand capacity is billed per second with no minimum session length; bandwidth is included without egress fees. Reserved capacity requires at least one 8-core machine per region, and warm-pool containers are billable while held. The maker lists a contractual 99.99% uptime SLA with multi-region failover, game-aware DDoS protection, and 24/7/365 support. The Bring Your Own Infrastructure plan costs $2 a month, billed per vCPU per month.

Who it suits

Gameye is aimed at teams operating multiplayer game servers that can package Linux builds as Docker images. It may also suit teams integrating server orchestration with one of the listed matchmakers or a custom HTTP matchmaker.

Limits

The listed Bring Your Own Infrastructure plan costs $2 per vCPU per month, while the customer owns and pays for compute. Linux Docker images are required; Windows containers are unsupported. Reserved capacity needs at least one 8-core machine per region, and warm-pool containers incur charges while held.

Getting started

1. Open Gameye’s website
2. Choose API, self-hosted, or web deployment
3. Prepare dedicated server builds as Linux Docker images
4. Select on-demand, reserved, or bring-your-own-infrastructure capacity
5. Connect a listed matchmaking integration or custom HTTP matchmaker
6. Configure sessions through the REST Session API

Verdict

Gameye offers container-level orchestration and multiple session controls for multiplayer servers, with several listed matchmaking integrations. Teams should account for the Linux and Docker requirements and the distinct commitments for reserved capacity and warm pools.